Would Bush invite Franco to dinner, and pat him on the back... "You're doing a great job, Frankie..."

Are we blind to fascism?

Having just returned from Granada (the city in Spain, not the island that Reagan secured for the English), I have had the opportunity to review the Monuments.

Granada – El Parque Garcilorca – named after Garcia Lorca, a Spanish patriot and poet who resisted the Fascist movement in Spain until his last drop of blood. A real "chien andalus"...

No one remembers it now, the fascist dictatorship – except the Spanish. Fascism was the rule of law under Franco, the Dictator.

I ask myself, if Franco were alive now, would Bush invade Spain? Would Cheney want to depose the evil dictator? I think not. What’s in Spain that Cheney could possibly benefit from? Oranges? Sunshine? Jamon Serrano? Rioja? No, the Bush-Cheney invasion force is only interested in evil-doers who have oil. It matters not how much blood is on anyones hands, just how oil is under their land.

There is a monument to Franco, at the crossroads of the olive grove just above the Alhambra – it is dedicated to Franco, and aside from the periodic graffiti it remains there under the current open democracy. It is truly a monument to the Spanish people that they, after the death of their brutal leader, they decided for themselves to be a democracy. They decided for themselves. No foreign government stepped in to tell them how. They alone decided and they did it without shedding a single drop of blood.

I ask myself, if Franco were alive today, would Bush invite him to dinner and pat him on the back? Would Bush see Garcilorca as a terrorist, and destroy him? Would the many Spanish who died trying to rid themselves of a tyrannical ruler be considered terrorists and executed? Would Picasso have been considered a subversive? Would his hands havwe been cut off so that he would be heard from no more?

It seems to me that neither Bush nor Cheney have ever read a history book that wasn’t approved of by the Neo Cons, that they have never been to a modern art museum, that they have no idea what it truly means to live in an authoritarian state, and yet they are hell bent on creating one.

Todo para la Patria…. Aqui estamos.

Tags:   bush, cheney, fascism, franco, garcilorca, granada, neo cons

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Posted on 3/7/2006 ( Permanent Link )
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